Sustainable Development, Changing Climate and Me (Master level)Laajuus (5 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

Student - knows basics of climate change and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - understand the systemic nature of action on climate change, their magnitude and holistic implementation and their long-term societal importance - are able to assess critically information sources on climate change and also understands deliberate misleading - knows the Human Security approach and is capable to preliminary assess the impacts of the measures in a pre-selected context (related to one's own work, hobby or similar)

Sisältö

Changing climate is affecting everyone on earth and its sustainable development. This course deals with reliability of information sources on climate change, its basics, impacts, mitigation and adoption.  What individual citizen, organization and society should do? The course introduces Human Security Approach and teach how preliminary impact assessment of the planned measures can be done in student’s own work, hobby or life. The course is multidisciplinary and suitable for everyone with previous higher education qualification. - Reliability of the climate change information and the IPCC - Greenhouse effect - Climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation - Human Security Approach (people centered, true knowledge and impact assessment) - Ex ante impact assessment of the measures, presentation of the method and exercise

Esitietovaatimukset

No prerequisites

Oppimateriaalit

Content, materials and links to external resources (all in Moodle)